138 Counseling Reflections on Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

It began with a playful Facebook question in June 2010, “Would anyone be interested in a series of blog posts on ‘A Counselor Reflects on Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis’?” The response was enthusiastic enough to persuade me to see where the idea led.

Those who know me well are doubtless laughing at my compulsive persistence. But has been an enjoyable exercise in slowly reading, reflecting on, and applying a classic Christian work. Here is the fruit of these three year’s worth of reflection.

1. The Important of Our Disagreements
2. The Positive Side of Temptation
3. The “Deeper” Meaning of Being a Christian
4. What Would a Totally New Morality Look Like?
5. The Only Law We Can Disobey
6. What Needs to be Explained?
7. Good and Bad Desires Do Not Exist
8. What Would Make a Devil of Us?
9. “-Er” Requires a Standard
10. What is the Point of Playing Football?
11. Limits of Science: What vs. Why?
12. We Have Inside Information
13. Beyond Science: A Necessary Question
14. Creative Evolution: The Best of Both Worlds?
15. We All Want Progress
16. Only a Person Can Forgive
17. Goodness as Safety or Danger
18. How Comfort Is Not Found
19. Meaning, Darkness, and Eyes
20. Simple Religion
21. Good Things Wrong Methods
22. Be Good for Goodness Sake
23. Other Religions Not All Wrong
24. Evil as a Parasite
25. A Moral Civil War
26. Disagreeing With God
27. Made of Better Stuff?
28. Putting Yourself First
29. What Fuel Your Engine?
30. Jesus Forgives Sin Committed Against Me
31. Liar, Lunatic, or Lord
32. Disabled Death
33. Repentance Is Harder Than Eating Humble Pie
34. It Takes a Good Person to Repent
35. Humilitarian: A New Moral Diet
36. Deity: An Unfair Advantage
37. What Is a Live Body?
38. Why Doesn’t God Make Himself More Known?
39. Directions for Running the Human Machine
40. If I Simply Belonged to Myself
41. Living Beyond Seventy Years
42. One Mark of a Bad Man
43. One Good Tennis Shot?
44. What Makes Heaven, Heavenly?
45. Quacks, Cranks, and Moral Teachers
46. How Christianity Works
47. Who Would Like a Christian Society?
48. The Twin Obstacles to Generosity
49. Ally, Master, or Judge?
50. C.S. Lewis on Sigmund Freud
51. Courage and Illogical Fear
52. God Does Not Judge on Raw Material
53. Blame It On the Body?
54. Choices Turn the Central Part of You
55. The Momentum of Wisdom
56. Chastity Versus Modesty
57. The Most Unpopular Virtue
58. A Bacon Strip-Tease
59. Would Have Been the Best Sex Ever
60. Moralism… C.S. Lewis… Permissiveness
61. C.S. Lewis, Bulimia, and Pornography
62. C.S. Lewis on Divorce
63. Being “In Love” and Promises
64. C.S. Lewis on Mid-Life Crisis
65. C.S. Lewis on Two Kinds of Marriages
66. Forgiveness, A Lovely Idea
67. Forgiveness: If Received, Then Required
68. Forgiveness Made Easier: Part I
69. Forgiveness Made Easier: Part II
70. C.S. Lewis on Loving Myself
71. C.S. Lewis Meets His Murderer
72. Loving the Unlovable In Me
73. Invisible Vice
74. C.S. Lewis’ Pride Evaluation Question
75. C.S. Lewis’ Cure for Pride: Part I
76. C.S. Lewis on Self-Respect and Devil’s Laughter
77. C.S. Lewis on The Devil’s Cure
78. C.S. Lewis’ Portrait of Humility
79. C.S. Lewis on Temperament, Feelings, and Obedience
80. C.S. Lewis on “Fake It Until You Make It”
81. C.S. Lewis, Compound Moral Interest, and Spiritual Warfare
82. C.S. Lewis on How God Feels About Feelings
83. C.S. Lewis on Being Too Heavenly Minded
84. C.S. Lewis on “Out of This World” Pleasures
85. C.S. Lewis on Savoring Temporal Pleasures
86. C.S. Lewis on Doubting Faith
87. C.S. Lewis on Losing Faith
88. C.S. Lewis on Sin’s Current
89. C.S. Lewis on Jesus’ Full Temptation
90. C.S. Lewis Says, “Punt It”
91. C.S. Lewis Says, “Try Until You Realize You Can’t”
92. C.S. Lewis on the Insult of Everything for Nothing
93. C.S. Lewis on God-Saturated Human Effort
94. C.S. Lewis Rejecting What Not to Write
95. C.S. Lewis on Theology as Experience vs. Map
    
96. 80’s Fashion Combat, Old Theology, & Domestic Violence
    
97. C.S. Lewis Says, “Good Advice Is Over-Rated”
98. C.S. Lewis on God as Father and Creator
99. C.S. Lewis on Really Living
100. C.S. Lewis on Losing/Gaining Myself in God
101. C.S. Lewis on God-Saturated Prayer
102. C.S. Lewis on a Community Vision for God
103. C.S. Lewis on How God Knows the Future
104. C.S. Lewis on God Listening to Prayer
105. C.S. Lewis on Away from the Bible and Back
106. C.S. Lewis on a God Infection
107. C.S. Lewis on an Awkward Picture of Evangelism
108. C.S. Lewis on Gospel Phrases
109. C.S. Lewis on “What Could Have Been”
110. C.S. Lewis on the Collective Human Race
111. C.S. Lewis Warning for Two Party Elections
112. C.S. Lewis on Pretending
113. C.S. Lewis on Trying Harder with Better Teaching
114. C.S. Lewis on Soul Rats
115. C.S. Lewis on God-Fatigue
116. C.S. Lewis on New Motives
117. C.S. Lewis Says Christianity Is Hard and Easy
118. C.S. Lewis on Bad Eggs
119. C.S. Lewis on “Be Ye Perfect”
120. C.S. Lewis on Masturbation
121. God the Father: Easy to Please, Hard to Satisfy
122. C.S. Lewis on Being Annoyed with God
123. C.S. Lewis Insults, Exalts, and Humbles Me
124. C.S. Lewis on God’s HGTV Show
125. C.S. Lewis on Death Treatment
126. C.S. Lewis on “If Christianity Were True”
127. C.S. Lewis on “If Christianity Were True 2”
128. C.S. Lewis on “A Gift to Who?”
129. C.S. Lewis on the Gospel Paradox
130. C.S. Lewis on a Balanced Personality
131. C.S. Lewis on Being Alone with God
132. C.S. Lewis on Dying Christianity
133. C.S. Lewis Says “Christians ‘Need’ Less”
134. Is There a “Jesus Personality”?
135. C.S. Lewis on “The Real You”
136. C.S. Lewis on How to Make a Good Impression
137. C.S. Lewis on Looking

After all of this I did one final post looking back on 3 years of reflecting on Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. It has been a great journey for me personally. I pray the exercise has, and maybe will continue to, bless others who care to take a slow read through a great book.